Ascents in Snowy Mountains as Tick

Am pretty sure that I climbed this, given I climbed every V0 problem here that might be called a traverse.

Epic! A little bit of everything

"One of the best routes anywhere" it says on the description. It doesnt look like much but we had bailed on the cathedral at buffalo to come climb in the roof of australia at blue lake (luckily no one described it to me as a roof or i might have said no). Yim and i cruised in past the gorgeous snow gums and ended up needing to employe some alpine tricks to navigate the still very deep and high angle snow pack at the base of the cliffs. Traversing via an intermittent bergshrund system and some light soloing got us to mindbender which yim took, and from there, rapped down dihedral corner, contemplated doing it but i couldnt get that one of the best routes ever line out of my head. I insisted on a ground anchor and lead belay across a steep section of corniced snow around the corner. A rope stretching traverse to the start of trunkline. Some comms problems delayed us abit and i did a solo down to the corner to shout to yim that he was kind of on belay. He pointed out later i could have just via ferrated into the climbing rope. Very true. Anyway, both of us had the weight of belay faff eradicated from our minds by a pitch that lived up to its description. Crux could be in 4 different places depending on your preferred style. I particularly loved the stem into committed finger layback sequence. The top out offwidth was abit rude with a deathblock being the only hold on selection but absolutely gobsmacking pitch. Yim and i took post climb celebration seriously with a but slide down the lower angle snow slope at the side of the crag and an inevitable skinny dip in blue lake. One of the golden days of the trip

piked out at end of 'first pitch' as the crack above was a little too moist for happy travels

Climbs really differently to how I expected. Bringing a brush or similar to clean the dirt out of some parts of the crack might increase confidence in some placements, especially for some of the more spicy moves.

exiting end

big eggfort climb, took a while to get on the wall as Harrie had to suss the route (which flake??). Fingers were freezing in the mossy/wet cracks, but got up and the exposure is so mad. v cool experience

first 20m is *

better than it looks

classic corner, mixed bag